Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
@ben But that's the very definition of a mono-culture. A vibrant community allows all of these topics, encourages them even. Then, with filters, who you follow, hashtags, and blocking you get the feed you want.
To get the culture you want by cutting off the supply is counter productive.
The AI supply is artificially inflated by the fact that the one thing LLMs are great at is churning out text promoting themselves, not to mention oodles of questionable VC money. No one is having difficulty accessing AI-related content. Many people are struggling with AI discourse sucking all the oxygen out of important rooms.
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